Word: halt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then to the palace in horse carriages, guarded by sailors and naval cadets. King Haakon was effusive, bestowed decorations. Then to the Grand Hotel, all traffic in the streets coming to a halt while the cortege passed. Out on a balcony, Amundsen smiled his thanks; soon after, he sat down with the others to a handsome luncheon furnished by the Aero Club. More speeches; The Star Spangled Banner in honor of Pilot Ellsworth...
...yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies by yards, bounced, came to a halt 210 yards from...
Foochow, about 400 miles southwest from Shanghai in the Province of Fukien. A general strike was declared. All business came to a halt...
...front of their holdings. Some of the interior representatives contended that such title should not automatically pass, hut should be acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record as a 100% Utopia for the wealthy has been preserved intact...
During his illness, he repeatedly asked for his favorite newspaper; but the doctors, fearing to let him see the unfavorable bulletins which they had issued, did not accede to his demand. Finally, on the eve of his death, a morning newspaper* consented to halt its presses and print a single copy of a special edition, called by the British press "the bedside edition," wherein was described his "great improvement" and the certainty of his early convalescence?but all in vain; the "bedside edition" was hardly wet with its ink before Lord Curzon had expired. It was a considerate and sporting...